Korg KORG Pa50 user manual Playing a Song, Sync, Need more information?

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3 - Playing a Song

6Select other Variations.

There are four VARIATION buttons. These are four different versions of the same Style. Try them all!

You can go to a Variation after a Fill. Just press a FILL button, then, immediately after, a VARIATION button.

7Stop it!

OK, you could say: “O, that’s easy, I know how to do it, I can just press that big red START/STOP button again”.

Yes, you are perfectly right. But that’s only the easy way. Let us suggest a different way:

PRESS ENDING1 OR ENDING2

An ending is instantaneously called, and will begin playing, to led the Style to a colorful end. As usual, ENDING1 is pre- programmed, while ENDING2 asks for your chord progres- sion.

In Sync

A guy from the end of the classroom stands up asking: “Huh, Sir, and what if I want to avoid all that START/STOP thing? I mean, I prefer to have my hands free for music!” Good point. The SYNCHRO button is there right for this.

1While the Style is stopped, press the SYN- CHRO button.

The SYNCHRO-START LED begins flashing on. The Syn- chro Start function is enabled.

2Play a chord on the keyboard.

You must play a chord for the chord recognition engine. Usu- ally, it will be on the left of the split point, but it depends on the CHORD SCANNING section.

The Style starts.

3Stop the Style as you better prefer.

You know how to do, isn’t it?

Need more information?

Go to “Style Play operating mode” on page 40. The Reference Guide includes all the information you need.

3 - PLAYING A SONG

Nothing easier than playing a Song on the Pa50. You don’t have even to load it from disk.

1Move the BALANCE slider to the center.

This sets both onboard sequencers at the same level.

2Insert the floppy disk containing the Song into the disk drive.

Make sure your disk is DOS formatted. This is the typical Window format, and you can make a disk of this type also on the Mac, by selecting the “DOS” option when initializing a disk.

3Press the SONG PLAY button to access the Song Play mode.

This is the display:

No song

S1: Piano01

S2: Guitar01

Lyrics StrngEns2

VoxPad1

4Select a Song.

Another easy task. Press the A (S1:) VOLUME/VALUE button to open the Song Select window.

Song Selection

CLUB

BALLADS

0001 MYSONG.MID

FD SELECT OPEN CLOSE

Press the F1 button to select the floppy disk drive. The list of files on disk appears. Songs are files with the “.MID” or “.KAR” extension. Pa50 filters all other file types out for you. Use the TEMPO/VALUE controls, or the VOLUME/VALUE (E-H) buttons to scroll the list. The E-F buttons are the Scroll Up ( ), while the G-H buttons are the Scroll Down ( ).

Move the Song to play to the first line of the display. Then press the F2 (SELECT) button.

5Press PLAY/STOP (SEQ1).

The playback begins.

6If you like, select a Song for the Sequencer 2.

Press the B (S2:) VOLUME/VALUE button, and repeat the above procedure to select the Song for Sequencer 2. Use the right (SEQ 2) PLAY/STOP button to start/stop the second Song. Use the BALANCE cursor to mix between Sequencer 1 and Sequencer 2.

7Take a pause.

Press PAUSE to stop the playback without going back to mea- sure 1. The PAUSE LED begins flashing.

Press PAUSE again to resume the playback.